OK Guys,
I was pretty wound up when I wrote this thread.
I have paid the Builder 2 Progress payments, consisting of $45,000 to get the work started and a further $40,000 to get the roof on the place.
NZ$85,000 later, the brickie hasn't started and there has been practically no input from the Architect who I paid to oversee the construction.
I've been on the phone continuously with all parties.
I found out that the builder is being sued for a council mistake on another house he built recently and the people cannot get a final Certificate of Completion because of the Council screw up.
This could ruin the guy, and I have the greatest sympathy for him.
All I want, is for my house to be finished to the lock-up stage, as long as there are bricks around it and it has lockable doors and windows, I can finish it.
I can organise my own Sub-Contractors (who are also livid of the fact that the plan hasn't worked out).
We are paying rent here and the house pretty much sucks, we want to get into our new place, no matter what that takes.
